Definition of crab

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Crab (a.) A crab apple; -- so named from its harsh taste.

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Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Crab :: Crab (v. t.) To make sour or morose; to embitter.
Merostomata :: Merostomata (n. pl.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus..
Decapod :: Decapod (n.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively..
Sawtooth :: Sawtooth (n.) An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crab-eating seal..
Crabby :: Crabby (a.) Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing..
Crabsidle :: Crabsidle (v. i.) To move sidewise, as a crab. [Jocular]..
Grapsoid :: Grapsoid (n.) A grapsoid crab.
Tetricity :: Tetricity (n.) Crabbedness; perverseness.
Scrabbled :: Scrabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Scrabbl.
Horseman :: Horseman (n.) A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly..
Scrabble :: Scrabble (n.) The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble..
Crab :: Crab (a.) A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
Cheliferous :: Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab..
Abominable :: Abominable (a.) Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable..
Agouara :: Agouara (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America..
Phyllosoma :: Phyllosoma (n.) The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp..
Pyrus :: Pyrus (n.) A genus of rosaceous trees and shrubs having pomes for fruit. It includes the apple, crab apple, pear, chokeberry, sorb, and mountain ash..
Scraber :: Scraber (n.) The Manx shearwater.
Maian :: Maian (n.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae..
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